Geometry Introduction

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It may instigate fear, anxiety, and terrible flashbacks of when Barry Meanbottom, the second-grade class jerk, said you didn't know how to swim. Not wanting the other kids to laugh, you of course openly declared that you could. "Prove it," Barry had said with a sneer. Even as you jumped that diving board you knew you were doomed. To this day, you still have anxiety attacks around proofs and swimming pools.

Well, unlike Barry Meanbottom, geometry won't ever ask you to prove something you don't have the skills to prove. Sure, it might make you analyze what you already know and synthesize new information to make the proof work, but it's not a jerk. It'll make sure you have all the tools to swim and not sink. (That's a metaphor. We can't do anything about your actual swimming skills.)